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Posted: December 13, 2021

AAS 2022 Southeast Asia Panels

The Association for Asian Studies Conference will be held both virtually and in person in Honolulu from March 24-27, 2022. See below for the full Southeast Asia panels.

Please note that all times indicated are in the Hawaii Time Zone (HST).

For the most updated list of Southeast Asia panels with more details, go here.

Thursday, March 24

12:30pm-2:00pm (HST)

Virtual

  • Southeast Asia: Empire Competition and Circulation of Goods
  • Timor-Leste at 20 Years: Challenges of Attaining and Maintaining Independence

Friday, March 25

9:30am – 11:00am (HST)

Virtual

  • Collisions, Contradictions, and Camp: Revisioning Bangsa Malaysia through Malay Performing Arts
  • Power, Politics, and “Green” Biofuels in Indonesia
  • Reading Javanese literature and questions of theory I
  • Strengthening the Field of Southeast Asian Language Instruction through Collaboration

In person

  • Buddhism and Transnationalism in Vietnam and Cambodia
  • Conservative Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia: Priorities, Contentions, Evolutions

11:30 am -1:00 pm (HST)

Virtual

  • Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women
  • Mobility, Diaspora, Solidarity: Forging East Timorese Identities and Connections through Time
  • Networks and Mobilities of Belief in the Making of Vietnamese Catholicism
  • Politics of Human Rights in Southeast Asia
  • Reading Javanese literature and questions of theory II

In person

  • Change, Contestation and Hydropower Dam Development in the Lower Mekong River Basin
  • Environment and Ecology in South and Southeast Asia
  • Past as Prologue: Diasporic Experience and the Production of Knowledge in Southeast Asian Studies
  • Scientific knowledge and expertise in contemporary Southeast Asian rural development
  • Secrets and Secrecy in Southeast Asia
  • South Vietnam’s Era of Openness: Transnational and Global Histories of Republican Vietnam

1:30pm -3:00pm (HST)

Virtual

  • Discipline, Sociality and the State
  • Durian Matters 1: From Farm to Table
  • Indonesian Democracy in Retreat?
  • Natural and Supernatural Worlds across Southeast Asia
  • Negotiating Silences: Reading Memory, Heritage and Culture in Asian Narratives

In person

  • Erasure and Memory in Transitional Indonesia: Cultural, Demographic and Educational Perspectives
  • Passing Through Thailand, What Becomes of the Body?
  • Social Identities and Contemporary Issues in the Sinosphere

3:30pm-5:00pm (HST)

Virtual

  • A Crossroads Through Time: A Synthesis of Myanmar Prehistory and Ancient History
  • Buddhist Fidelity, Fiction, and Philosophy in Early Vietnamese Print Culture
  • Durian Matters 2: Impact of Covid 19 on the Durian Industry
  • Heritage, Death, and Social Memory
  • Politics, Institutions, Commerce, and Circulations
  • Technology Facilitated Sexual Violence (TFSV) in Singapore

In person

  • Asia Turning Left or Right? Economic Nationalism and National Security In Motion from Countries in Southeast, South, Northeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands
  • 21st Century Asian Arts: Indonesian Roots and Routes
  • Pandemic Pedagogies: Lessons in Teaching Southeast Asia
  • Spaces of Southeast Asian History
  • Violent Atmospheres: Political Ecologies of Pollution and Health Crises in Southeast Asia

Saturday, March 26

10:30am-12:00pm (HST)

Virtual

  • Human Rights in Timor-Leste, Twenty Years After Independence: International Frameworks in Local Contexts
  • Mindanao and the Philippines: Part I, Colonial Mindanao in Regional Perspective
  • Religion, Texts, and Language
  • Thinking with Things: From Life to Afterlife in Southeast Asia

In person

  • Learning in and out of the Classroom: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Schooling Practices in Indonesia
  • Revisiting Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Not Always on the Democrats’ Side
  • Social Media, Cultural Production, and Monuments
  • What was (or is) Islamic Reform?: New Directions in the Study of Islamic Reformism in Indonesia

12:30pm-2:00pm (HST)

Virtual

  • Agrarian Realpolitik: Migration, work, and large-scale land enclosures in Indonesia
  • Culture of Care: Insights and Critical Perspectives on Systems and Practices of Caregiving in the Philippines and Cambodia
  • Mindanao and the Philippines: Part II, Conflicts Old and New in 21st Century Mindanao
  • Multifaceted Membership of the Society : Rethinking the Citizen-Noncitizen Binary through Crisis in Asia
  • Peopling the Past: Biography and History in Colonial Vietnam
  • Reconstituting Nanyang: Ideological, Cultural, Religious, and Commercial Influences in Shaping Southeast Asia in the Cold War Era
  • Religion, Transnationalism, and Networks

In person

  • Infrastructures and Structures for Tourism in Southeast Asia, 1910s-30s
  • Music, Performance, Art and Astrology

4:00pm-5:30pm (HST)

Virtual

  • Social Identities, Gender, Kinship and the State
  • Textile Research in Southeast Asia: New Methods and Paradigms

In person

  • A Hmong Intellectual History Approach to Understanding Human Experience
  • Contentious and Contested Identities Along the Burma/Bangladesh Border
  • Dissidence, Institutions, and Moments in History
  • Mapping the Megacity: rethinking the past, present and future of Ho Chi Minh City
  • Traditions of Scholarship in Mainland Southeast Asia 1

6:00pm-7:30pm (HST)

Virtual

  • Deathscape Discourses in Urbanizing Southeast Asia: Rituals, History, and Heritage
  • Intersecting Powers in the Staging and Representation of Cambodian Performing Arts
  • Southeast Asia and the Cultural Cold War
  • Traditions of Scholarship in Mainland Southeast Asia #2

In person

  • Buddhist Imaginaries and Politics of mid-20th Century Southeast Asia
  • Fractured: Thinking with fragments in Southeast Asia
  • Local Cultures, Media, and Women’s Writing
  • Love, Beauty, and Community: Women in Vietnam
  • Religion, Caste, and Sovereignty in South and Southeast Asia

Sunday, March 27

9:00am-10:30am (HST)

Virtual

  • Connecting People Positively? The Infrastructure of Mobility in Democratic India and Socialist Vietnam
  • State Politics, Indigeneity, and Belonging
  • Islam, Religious Authority, and New Media in Indonesia
  • Leviathan at the Margins? Rethinking the Colonial State and Plural Society in Burma
  • Unpacking and Repackaging Japanese Migrants in the US-Ruled Philippines: Alternative Perspectives in History and Deep Film Indexing

In person

  • Unsettling Citizenship and Subjecthood

10:45am-12:15pm (HST)

Virtual

  • Deepening the Root, Braving the Wind: Chinese Indonesians Ethnic Identity, Political Participation and China Soft Power Intervention in Indonesia
  • Making a Region of Southeast Asia: Traditions and New Possibilities
  • Religious food charity, care, and social agency in Vietnam and Myanmar
  • Theravada Buddhists in Dangerous Times

In person

  • Haze, Sand, Fire, Water: Environmental Crises in Southeast Asia
  • Household, Community, and Ecology
  • Ho Chi Minh, France, the United States, and Missed Chances for Peace in Vietnam, 1945-1947
  • Resistance and the State in Southeast Asia
  • Studies of Legitimacy and Authority in Vietnamese Texts

12:30pm-2:00pm (HST)_Virtual

  • Beyond the Coloniser-Colonised Divide: Other Approaches to Singapore’s Colonial Histories
  • Deathscape Discourses in Urbanizing Southeast Asia: Life, Death, and Spatial Contestations
  • Democratization from the Bottom-up vs The State Ruse of Consent: Perspectives on Post-authoritarian Thailand
  • Old and New: Biopolitics in Asia

For more information, please visit Asian Studies’ website